Hmm. Seems… fragile. I don’t think that’s a reason not to do it, but I also wouldn’t put much hope in the idea that leaks would be successfully prevented by this system.
Re the “Why?/Citation?” react: I don’t know if this is what Nathan was thinking of, but trivially a would-be leaker could simply screenshot posts as they read and pass the screenshots on without this being reflected in the system.
Indicating them as a suspect when the leak is discovered.
Generally the set of people who actually read posts worthy of being marked is in a sense small, people know each other. If you had a process for distributing the work, it would be possible to figure out who’s probably doing it.
It would take a lot of energy, but it’s energy that probably should be cultivated anyway, the work of knowing each other and staying aligned.
Of course this would shrink the suspect pool, but catching the leaker more easily after the fact is very different from the system making it difficult to leak things. Under the proposed system, it would be very easy to leak things.
Hmm. Seems… fragile. I don’t think that’s a reason not to do it, but I also wouldn’t put much hope in the idea that leaks would be successfully prevented by this system.
Re the “Why?/Citation?” react: I don’t know if this is what Nathan was thinking of, but trivially a would-be leaker could simply screenshot posts as they read and pass the screenshots on without this being reflected in the system.
You can’t see the post body without declaring intent to read.
But someone who declared intent to read could simply take a picture and send it to any number of people who hadn’t declared intent.
Indicating them as a suspect when the leak is discovered.
Generally the set of people who actually read posts worthy of being marked is in a sense small, people know each other. If you had a process for distributing the work, it would be possible to figure out who’s probably doing it.
It would take a lot of energy, but it’s energy that probably should be cultivated anyway, the work of knowing each other and staying aligned.
Of course this would shrink the suspect pool, but catching the leaker more easily after the fact is very different from the system making it difficult to leak things. Under the proposed system, it would be very easy to leak things.